Since 2012, our firm has been seconding our Japanese attorneys to a Thai law firm in Bangkok in order to strengthen the relationship with Thai law firms and to also enable our lawyers to be more acquainted and experienced with local laws and regulations and businesses. In order to better serve the needs of our growing portfolio of Japanese clients in Thailand, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is pleased to announce the opening of our Bangkok Office in Thailand on May 25, 2016.

Thailand has always been the top destination to Japanese corporations that seek to invest in manufacturing and production activities in South East Asia, and we are seeing even greater interests and prospects in the consumer markets as of late. In addition to Japanese corporations’ investments in manufacturing and production activities, we are also seeing growing investments in finance and services-related industries, and it is expected that there will also be even greater investments in Thailand by highly rated Japanese corporations.

Our Bangkok Office will continue to work closely with top tier, full service local firms in Bangkok to provide fast and quality legal services in Japanese to both Japanese corporations wishing to establish and expand their business presence in Thailand, as well as Japanese and other foreign affiliated corporations seeking local law advice on general corporate, labor and employment, cross border transactions and other finance-related matters, and compliance matters, taking into consideration the latest and most relevant market information.

Further, using our Bangkok Office as a base to the surrounding countries (Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar), we will provide advice to corporations seeking to invest in these countries by working closely with top tier, full service local firms.

Our partner, Akitaka Anzai, will head our Bangkok Office. Mr. Anzai is well experienced with the region’s transactions, having more than three years of experiences directly in Thailand and Malaysia, and he will be assisted by two Thai lawyers. Our Bangkok Office will work closely with our Singapore Office (opened in November, 2013), our Ho Chi Minh City Office (opened in May, 2015) and our Jakarta Desk, which forms Anderson Mori & Tomotsune overseas offices, as well as together with our Thai desk in the Tokyo Office, in order to provide our clients with quality legal services by lawyers who are well acquainted with Asian related transactions and businesses.

[Bangkok Office]
Office Name:	Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Bangkok Office
	(Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (Thailand) Co., Ltd.)
Partner:	Akitaka Anzai(*)
Address:	12th Floor, Unit 1206 Mercury Tower, 540 Ploenchit Road
	Lumpini Sub-district, Pathumwan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
TEL:	+66-2-658-5670
FAX:	+66-2-658-5675

（*）Akitaka Anzai

Oct 2004	The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted as attorney-at-law in Japan; Joined Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
May 2010	University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.M.)
Oct 2010 -Sep 2011	Seconded to Zaid Ibrahim & Co., Kuala Lumpur
Nov 2012 –Nov 2013	Seconded to Weerawong, Chinnavat & Peangpanor Ltd., Bangkok
Jan 2015	Promoted to partner

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